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A few years back it was announced that the Paris Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld had called it quits after 10 years at the helm of the world's number one fashion magazine. Her years as the top editor were marked by "constant growth" both in terms of circulation and advertising. Photo  -   Tronson du Coudray art “Burnout” Like those high profile people within the more visible fashion industry, many other areas of necessary, but not so public, high pressure 'top of the tree' positions have huge demands upon the people who work in those specific areas. British Vogue said that Roitfeld had "...

Photo  -   Airlie Beach, Whitsundays, a play ground A grieving mother's plea is another desperate "cry in the wilderness" for young people not to binge drink, as it can lead to dangerous road accidents. In some quarters this cry is being heard. A few years ago Rachael Hutchesson's teenage son died in a fiery smash near Bathurst when he was a passenger in what is alleged to have been a stolen car driven by an unsupervised learner driver. Having been experiencing ''waves and waves of grief'', she was able to speaks out about a toxic cycle of boredom, booze and drugs which is destroying youn...

A recent Sydney Morning Herald article described a situation in the United States when a husband when using his wife's private password on their shared computer, so as to read her G-mail, discovered from these emails a dalliance of adultery. The article went on to explain that after Leon Walker, 33, of Michigan, discovered this adultery, his wife Clara Walker filed for a divorce, which was granted in December. In the Australian context and most Western countries there is 'no fault' divorce, so you do not even have to prove adultery or any other transgression to obtain a divorce. Mr Walker was...

Photo  -   Bible 1 The ABC Religious Affairs Compass program documentary in 2011 on the King James Bible of 1611 titled "When God spoke English. The making of the King James' Bible bought to light a number of fascinating aspects of its translation and final preparation." One of these final checks was that it was read aloud, as it would be read aloud in church each Sunday. Sometimes words were substituted to ensure the sound of the language flowed. This remains a hallmark of the King James Bible of 1611, which has facilitated its poetic quality and ease of memorisation, which generation af...

Photo - Winston Churchill - Pixabay Of the many things I might associate with Easter, surely something on Winston Churchill might be better left for Anzac week. But there has been some very interesting material recently coming out about his life that in might relate in some measure to Easter. Winston Churchill was a larger than life public figure when I was growing up during the 1950s. Although he was the wartime Prime Minister of Great Britain, his legends and his pronouncements were well-publicised in the Anglophile Australia of that time. Many adult men of our acquaintance had been overse...